Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several Old World plants of the genus Atriplex, especially A. hortensis, the garden-orach. See
Atriplex and mountain-spinach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.
- noun a plant (
Atriplex hortensis ), often used as a pot herb; -- also calledmountain spinach .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
plants , of the genusAtriplex , found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes
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Examples
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I might try orach again sometime, and use the leaves small.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jean 2009
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Bittman also inspired me to grow amaranth, orach, and cultivated strains of purslane, dandelions and watercress in my garden, and to harvest their wild cousins instead of composting them.
Kerry Trueman: Mark Bittman: Leafy Green Revolutionary? Kerry Trueman 2011
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I might try orach again sometime, and use the leaves small.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Bittman also inspired me to grow amaranth, orach, and cultivated strains of purslane, dandelions and watercress in my garden, and to harvest their wild cousins instead of composting them.
Kerry Trueman: Mark Bittman: Leafy Green Revolutionary? Kerry Trueman 2011
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Or for the abject poverty that had made bitter orach plants, cooked in water that had tested positive for typhoid, dysentery, and malaria, seem desirable.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Or for the abject poverty that had made bitter orach plants, cooked in water that had tested positive for typhoid, dysentery, and malaria, seem desirable.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Check out gemara shabbos 40b, the Rif 18b, and the shulchan oruch, orach chaim 326:1 I think….
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Does the shulchan orach mention something about lesbians being punished?
Support Gay Rights? No Jesus Cookie For You… | Jewschool 2004
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It is a tall shrubby orach, growing to the height sometimes of 10 feet.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Outside the wall the samphire and orach beds are wholly marine.
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